Prediction Markets Want to Financialize Everything—With Jathan Sadowski
Polymarket and Kalshi are everywhere. But what are they doing to society?
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Prediction Markets Want to Financialize Everything w/ Jathan Sadowski / Tech Won’t Save Us
Polymarket and Kalshi are everywhere. But what are they doing to society? Jathan Sadowski joins Paris Marx to discuss the rise of prediction markets and their negative social effects as they push the global economy closer toward the financialization of everything.
Jathan Sadowski is an Associate Professor at Monash University. He is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite and co-hosts This Machine Kills.
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Polymarket and Kalshi are everywhere. But what are they doing to society? Jathan Sadowski joins Paris Marx to discuss the rise of prediction markets and their negative social effects as they push the global economy closer toward the financialization of everything.
Jathan Sadowski is an associate professor at Monash University. He is the author of The Mechanic and the Luddite and cohosts This Machine Kills.
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